Elevated carrier



No. 608,656. Patented Aug. 9,1898.

H. H. DREW.

ELEVATED CARRIER.

(Application filed Sept. 1, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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HERBERT H. DREW, OF WATERLOO, NVISCONSIN.

ELEVATED CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,656, dated August 9, 1898, Application filed September 1, 1897. Serial No. 650,254. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it nut/y concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT H. DREW, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of lVaterloo, in the county of J eiferson and State of l visconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Elevated Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Myinvcntion contemplates a dump-carrier and elevated track for the same having turns. It therefore consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts hereinafter set forth, with reference to the accompanyin g drawin gs, and subsequently claimed.

Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a partly-broken dump-carrier and a portion of an elevated track for the same; Fig. 2, a partly-sectional end view of the assemblage of parts shown in the preceding figure, and Fig. 3 a perspective view illustrating a turn in the track and a trolley-wheel in travel thereon.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A rep resents a wire that constitutes the major portion of a track for a traveler, comprising a horizontal bar B, having a longitudinally grooved upper face, a plate 0, made fast to the bar and turned over at its upper end to form a housing having vertical side slots Z2, horizontal axles D, engaging said slots, and trolley wheels E, loose on the axles, the grooved peripheries of these trolley wheels being engaged with the said track. In detachable engagement with the grooved bar B of the traveler is a bail F, herein shown as having its ends in screw-thread union with castings G, these castings being provided at their lower ends with eyes that engage pivotstuds cl, projecting from other castings H, made fast to the ends of a box I, the latter constituting a carrier, that is held in position for loading by means of slip-pins J, that engage each pair of the aforesaid castings. lfowever,various means may be employed for holding the box I in position for loading, it being understood that the pivotal connections of said box and its bail are so positioned that the former will automatically dump when the pins J or other holders are retracted.

The apparatus herein described is especially designed for use about stables and barns as a means forhandling feed, manure, or other material, and from the foregoing it will be understood that a change of boxes with respect to the traveler may be readily made whenever desirable.

The track-wire is connected to any convenient supports, and where it has a turn a switch K is employed in'the angle. The switch is preferably a rail of .l -iron bent to the desired curve, its horizontal portion being notched and shaped to fit upon stretches. of the wire. The horizontal portion of the switch is also of less length than the vertical portion of the same and has its ends provided with upturned lips 6, upon which said stretches of the wire have bearing. By means of eyes f g and rods h the switch is made fast to the turn in the track-wire, and any suitable means may be employed for the suspension of said switch in order to take its weight from said track-wire. The ends of the vertical portion of the switch come inside the track-wire, on a level therewith, and hence it will be seen that the trolley-wheels of the traveler will readily shift from said track-wire to said switch or from the latter to the former, and provision being had for vertical play of the wheel-axles the traveler will not only run smoothly on an inclined stretch of track-wire, but will also go onto the switch Without liability of its rearmost wheel leaving the said wire.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An elevated carrier having a track comprising diverging stretches of wire and a curved switch made from arail of .l -iron having its horizontal portion notched and shaped to iit upon the wire stretches, this portion of the rail being of less length than the vertical portion of the same and turned up to form lips upon which said wire stretches have hearing.

2. A suitable track, a traveler comprising a horizontal bar having a longitudinally grooved upper face, a plate rising from the bar and bent over at its upper end to form a housing provided with vertical side slots, axles engaging theslots and trolley-wheels on the axles having grooved peripheries engaged with the track, a bail that dotachably engages the grooved traveler-bar, a box having pivotal dump connection with the bail, and suitable means forholding the box in position for loading.

5 3. A track comprising diverging stretches of Wire and a curved switch-rail having @011- nection With the Wire stretches Within the angle formed by the same, a traveler comprising vertical-play trolley-Wheels engaged with :0 the track, a pivotal dump-box hung from the traveler, and suitable means for holding the box in position for loading.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Waterloo, in the county of Jefferson and State of Wiscon- I 5 sin,,in the presence of two witnesses.

HERBERT H. DREW.

WVitnesses:

T. A. WILLIAMS, H. '1. AMES. 

